In separate news, Maurice’s The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You has been selected by the Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of LouisianaĪs one of two books by Louisiana authors to represent the state at the 2023 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Maurice was one of 15 artists-in-residence This residency program was founded by Kehinde Wiley, the artist most famousįor painting Barack Obama’s presidential portrait. Maurice Ruffin (Assistant Professor) attended a month-long Black Rock Senegal residency in Dakar. The archives/special collections into teaching. Hill Memorial Library to support collaboration with librarians and to incorporate In Faulkner's Light in August and Intruder in the Dust.' Also, Michael was selected as a 2023-2024 Special Collections Faculty Fellow in The conference theme was 'Queer Faulkner,'Īnd his talk was entitled, 'Slapstick, Sadomasochism, and Civil Rights: Queer Violence Michael Bibler (Associate Professor) presented a keynote talk at the 49th annual Faulkner & YoknapatawphaĬonference in Oxford, MS (July, 2023). “About Us” to learn about our faculty, graduate students, publications, events, and Go to Undergraduate and Graduate Course Descriptions to see examples of what our Department has to offer and browse Needed – and valued - in every area of work and life. The value of an English degree is that the person who can write withĮlegance and precision, and who has the skills to interpret and analyze texts, is Meanings, to understand how context and text interact, and to create compelling texts Linguistics, rhetoric, film, theory, and the craft of writing in a variety of genresĪnd forms, we challenge students to ask questions of texts, to read beyond literal

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